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water, shirts are a transformation of cotton and rag is the ultimate utility and transformation of a shirt once again.
The seventy-two arts of men and sixty-four arts of women are famous in Jain scriptures. Every such art form is a conversion of some thing or some system. Thus, the above are various instances of conversions and transformations by humans.
Mentality plays a very important role while implementing all these forms of transformations. All jobs cannot be accomplished by the same mentality. Sometimes you have to be stern, sometimes you have to be soft, sometimes you have to be patient and sometimes you have to be swift to seize an opportunity. While harvesting a crop in the farm you cannot be patient, you can't make haste after mixing culture in milk for fermentation, while grinding chillies you cannot be slow, and while moulding a pot the potter has to use a soft hand.
By his act of embellishment and transformation man has attained unprecedented material success that cannot be achieved by animals. When an animal is thirsty, he has to go to the pond, whereas man has used his technical prowess to bring the pond to his home, knowing its utility.
There is a major difference between the animal kingdom and human beings. Acts of manufacturing, processing, printing, finishing and furnishings do not form part of an animal's list of activities. The system of raw material and finished goods exists only with humans. The lives of animals are governed by nature while man understands the laws of nature and extracts.benefits from nature also. This very act of transformation gives man a unique identity in the entire universal kingdom.
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